Syd Sidney

Syd Sidney is a singer, songwriter, drummer and producer known outside his solo work for producing albums and playing drums for Mia Dyson including 2012's The Moment which debuted at #1 in Australia. Syd is a frequent co-writing partner of Zac Clark (Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness) and member of Radio Skies The Pullmen and Hotels & Highways. He currently lives in Ojai, CA where he is partners with Scott Hirsch Daniel Wright and Brendan Willing James at Echo Magic, a production team and record label. 
 His solo career began with recordings posted to mp3.com including a dorm room recording of Blink 182's Dammit followed by 2002’s raw apartment recording Week Days, Weak Knees which featured the enduring single Here's a Love Song and led to extensive touring in the college market. 
 2004’s sophomore album Fault Lines was a polished acoustic affair which yielded the road ballad Back Home, featured in Hart of Dixie and other television shows. 
 In the winter of 2006 he and his band worked in a converted barn in the depths of a Vermont winter to create 2007’s The Way We Found It featuring a moody acoustic reworking of the Gregory Douglass song Sail the Sea 
 Nearly 10 years since his last solo effort (2009’s power pop homage Upswing ) Syd reunited with his core collaborators to record the album Easy Magic. The later part of the 2010s and early 2020s has found Syd releasing singles, an album of songs written by his father-in-law and appearing with The Brothers Koren